Lydie Paton is an Adelaide born landscape architect and artist. She works with a variety of mediums and materials including printmaking. Her background in landscape design and an interest in environmental science underpin her selection of subject matter and themes. Her paintings and etchings often have botanical or ornithological themes. With in these common themes the representation can be quite varied – sometimes more representational while other times more abstract.

Lydie has been painting her whole life, but in 2013, she began formal studies in fine arts at the Adelaide College of the Arts. The exposure in this course, to diverse mediums, led to an interest in varied art making techniques and an enthusiasm for experimentation with materials.
In 2015, Lydie spent two years in Toronto, Canada, studying printmaking and etching under the tutelage of Brian Hoxha. Since then, she has been producing aluminium plate etchings. Colour is also added to some of these prints through techniques using watercolour washes or chine-collé.

Lydie says of her practice; “I create compulsively. I have three young children and so finding time to paint is tricky but I squeeze it in because I can’t help myself. I have always loved oil paints, frustrating and messy as they can be, they have a particular quality and I’m drawn to the texture, the evidence of brush marks and depth of colour they bring to an artwork.”